%0 Book %T vicarious brain, creator of worlds %A Berthoz, Alain %H Weiss, Giselle %D 2017 %I Harvard University Press %C Cambridge, Massachusetts %@ 9780674088955 %G English %F 860113116 %O Alain Berthoz ; translated by Giselle Weiss %O Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 172-202 %X Groping around a familiar room in the dark, relearning to read after a brain injury, navigating a virtual landscape through an avatar: all are expressions of vicariance--when the brain substitutes one process or function for another. Alain Berthoz shows that this capacity allows humans to think creatively in an increasingly complex world.-- %L 153 %K Adaptability (Psychology) %K Adjustment (Psychology) %K Mind and reality %K Brain %K Identity (Psychology) %K Avatars (Virtual reality) %9 Text